Get some ideas
Go for a walk and see how many of these spring flowers can you tick off.
flower hunt sheet
Which flowers should Bark and Beetle's sell in their shop and which woodland creatures would buy them?
bark and beetle's stock list
Which flowers would be perfect for the shop?
tell us
Get collecting
Flower petals are great for making pictures, cards and presents (remember Mother's Day is next weekend :O)
Print this collecting bag template then collect some petals - there's lots of tree blossom and daisies about right now.
flower collecting bag
Don't pick too many - bees and butterflies need their pollen and nectar - ask permission before you pick from the garden and never uproot plants.
what did you collect?
Get pressing
Bark and Beetle's floristry department will need some lovely, fresh wallpaper.
Use the flower petals that you've collected to make some wallpaper. All you need to do is glue them onto an A4 sheet of paper :O)
Flower petals will quickly shrivel up and die once they've been picked, but you can press them to preserve them.
flower pressing
show us your flowery wallpaper
Get card-making
This Sunday is Mother's Day and Bark and Beetle's will be selling cards!
Use your pressed flowers to decorate a Mother's Day card for your Mum, Grandma or Auntie.
greeting card template
Get gift-making
The shop will also need a small gift department. Stuck for ideas?
Make a photo frame out of natural items for a Mother's Day gift.
twig frame
You can even turn your twig frame into a dreamcatcher by adding some pressed flowers and dangly catkins :O)
show us what you made
Boredom busters
The shop is bound to be popular, with woodland creatures queuing out through the door! You'll need to provide the customers with games to keep them happy while they wait.
This flower-fact-filled game is just like 'Snakes and Ladders', exceptt you climb up the flowers and tumble down with the raindrops :O)
boardgame
counters and die
Can you design your own boardgame involving flowers?
email it to us
Now that the sunshine has helped the flowers to bloom, which colours can you spot in nature?
colour bingo
Advertise the shop
Finally you need to design a poster telling all of the woodland creatures that the shop is open for business.
Are you going to get a celebrity to open it? Someone like Justin Bee-ber, Taylor Swift or Jessie Jay...
poster template
You could even use these colouring in sheets to create a really eye-catching poster :O)
daisy colouring sheet
flowers
We'd love to see your poster!
email it to us
Drop us an email to tell us which part of this challenge you enjoyed the most along with your stories, pictures and suggestions :O)
naturedetectives@woodlandtrust.org.uk
Helped Bark and Beetle's
Woodland Emporium?
Stick this sticker over the green shoots on
your CLUB poster and get ready
for next week's challenge :O)